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trojan
Volume CXIII, Number 54
University of Southern California
Tuesday, November 20, 1990
Rape suspect's pretrial hearing date announced
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Willie Damone Taylor, the man accused of raping three university students in September and of attempting to rape a vVest Covina woman late last year, will appear in a pretrial hearing on Nov. 26, officials in the District Attorney's sex crimes division said Monday.
This hearing was scheduled after defense attorneys requested a continuance at Taylor's first trial date in October so they could further review evidence.
Taylor, 28, has been held without bail since his Sept. 27 arrest. He is charged with 11 felony counts of rape, one count of rape with a foreign object and three counts each of sodomy, burglary and robbery.
He is also charged with three felony counts for the West Covina incident.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of 120-140 years in prison.
Taylor, who grew up in the university area, was convicted of rape in 1985, and of robbery in 1987.
He had been out of jail for less than a month after the first rape of a university student occurred.
Students upset with meal plan
Senate survey addresses issue of dining policy
By Janet Cavallo
Staff Writer
A majority of university students with meal plans are dissatisfied with the structure of dining services policy, according to the latest Student Senate Trojan Opinion Poll conducted by the Financial Affairs Committee.
According to the poll, students are most dissatisfied with new dining policies that they say force many of their paid meals to go unused.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents said they sometimes cannot utilize their full meal plan. Thirty-one percent said they miss those meals because they eat elsewhere and another 28 percent said their eating habits suffer from class schedule conflicts, according to the poll results.
But 74 percent of students polled responded that they think the 10, 12 and 15-meal plan should include a cash equivalency, which could be used at any of the university's dining facilities.
Under those dining plans, students can only use the meals on their dining cards
R. Antonio Garcia / Dally Trojan
Scott Hall (left), a senior majoring in psychology and a student senator, looks on while Christy Snell, a senior majoring in engineering, fills out a Trojan Opinion Poll.
at the dining halls, which are open for limited times during the day.
Of those 300 polled, 78 percent have a meal plan that limits the usage of the plan to EVK and Trojan dining halls.
"(Dining services) should find out why people don't want tr eat in the dining
halls and deal with that directly, instead of establishing rules that force people to eat in the halls," said James Sladeck, financial affairs chair for Student Senate.
The final question in the survey asked students about the overall performance of (See Dining, page 6)
Chavez speaks on human rights
Activist urges students to continue union’s fight
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Prominent labor activist Cesar Chavez stressed the need to fight for human rights in a noontime address Monday to a packed audience at Hancock Auditorium.
The speech, sponsored by the Latino Student Assembly, was in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
"We believe we have rights in this country,"
Cesar Chavez
R. Antonio Garcia / Dally Trojan
said Chavez, the 63-year-old president of the United Farm Workers. "The day we let the government take those rights, we're through."
Chavez has been a key organizer of California's agriculture laborers since the early 1960s. He led strikes, boycotts and fasts to improve working conditions for farm laborers and has fought against the proliferation of pesticides by the agricultural industry.
Chavez, who spoke to the audience for 30 minutes, is currently leading a boycott of state grape growers because of their pesticide usage.
Pesticides used by the agricultural industry have been linked to cancer and birth defects among farm laborers and in communities surrounding farmlands, he said.
"We've got to do something to protect (those) who work and sacrifice to produce the food we eat every day," he said.
Chavez told a story about a crew spraying a toxic pesticide while wearing protective suits and masks. One of the men died and two others became seriously ill from the spraying.
The autopsy indicated the cause of death had been pesticide poisoning, but rather than blaming inadequate chemical limits, the cause of death was listed officially as suicide, Chavez said.
"That was the most vicious damn thing I've ever seen in my life," he said.
Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting Vons Supermarkets, a major buyer of table grapes, and passing out leaflets in front of the store despite recent court injunctions against his group's actions.
Chavez said the injunctions are unfair, and that he and his supporters did not fear arrest.
"We're damn well going to (pass out leaflets in front of Vons)," he said. "We're going to do it tomorrow."
In fact, Chavez criticized the judicial system for rendering decisions to benefit industry rather than the people.
(See Chavez, page 2)
English professor given faculty award by Mortar Board
By Chris Fukunaga
Staff Writer
Vincent Cheng, a university English professor, said he was surprised Monday when members of the Mortar Board senior society interrupted his class and "tapped" him as their second faculty-of-the-month for this school year.
Cheng, who had been lecturing to his class on the poet William Butler Yeats, said he was flattered to receive the award.
"I am very honored, and I don't want to say too much or I'll probably start reciting Yeats' poems," he joked. "But thank you all."
The Torch and Tassel chapter of the Mortar Board taps professors at the university in recognition of outstanding scholarship and teaching.
Cheng attended Harvard College, Boston College and Stanford University, where he received his doctorate. He joined the USC faculty in 1979, and is an acknowledged James Joyce scholar.
Cheng's book Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study oj Finnegan’s Wake received a Choice Out-
standing Academic Book Award.
Karen Chow, chairwoman of Mortar Board's Faculty of the Month Committee, said Cheng is well known in academic circles and is liked by his students.
"His commitment to students is apparent in his numerous office hours and his ready willingness to sit down individually with students," Chow said. "He has even hosted students for dinner at his own home."
After Chow concluded her remarks, she and 13 other Mortar Board members presented Cheng with a scroll and a letter of congratulations.
Besides Joyce, Cheng's other teaching interests include Modem British and American literature, Shakespeare, creative writing and Prosody.
Cheng is fluent in French, Chinese, Spanish, Latin and Portugese as well as English.
Chow nominated Cheng for the award.
"He is very special to me," she said. "He was my first En-(See Tapping, page 14)

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Ross ready for the Irish
Sports, page 20
Housing marks degrade tenants
Viewpoint, page 4
Dramarama reveals all
Life / Arts, page 7
~ . 1!!
trojan
Volume CXIII, Number 54
University of Southern California
Tuesday, November 20, 1990
Rape suspect's pretrial hearing date announced
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Willie Damone Taylor, the man accused of raping three university students in September and of attempting to rape a vVest Covina woman late last year, will appear in a pretrial hearing on Nov. 26, officials in the District Attorney's sex crimes division said Monday.
This hearing was scheduled after defense attorneys requested a continuance at Taylor's first trial date in October so they could further review evidence.
Taylor, 28, has been held without bail since his Sept. 27 arrest. He is charged with 11 felony counts of rape, one count of rape with a foreign object and three counts each of sodomy, burglary and robbery.
He is also charged with three felony counts for the West Covina incident.
The charges carry a maximum penalty of 120-140 years in prison.
Taylor, who grew up in the university area, was convicted of rape in 1985, and of robbery in 1987.
He had been out of jail for less than a month after the first rape of a university student occurred.
Students upset with meal plan
Senate survey addresses issue of dining policy
By Janet Cavallo
Staff Writer
A majority of university students with meal plans are dissatisfied with the structure of dining services policy, according to the latest Student Senate Trojan Opinion Poll conducted by the Financial Affairs Committee.
According to the poll, students are most dissatisfied with new dining policies that they say force many of their paid meals to go unused.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents said they sometimes cannot utilize their full meal plan. Thirty-one percent said they miss those meals because they eat elsewhere and another 28 percent said their eating habits suffer from class schedule conflicts, according to the poll results.
But 74 percent of students polled responded that they think the 10, 12 and 15-meal plan should include a cash equivalency, which could be used at any of the university's dining facilities.
Under those dining plans, students can only use the meals on their dining cards
R. Antonio Garcia / Dally Trojan
Scott Hall (left), a senior majoring in psychology and a student senator, looks on while Christy Snell, a senior majoring in engineering, fills out a Trojan Opinion Poll.
at the dining halls, which are open for limited times during the day.
Of those 300 polled, 78 percent have a meal plan that limits the usage of the plan to EVK and Trojan dining halls.
"(Dining services) should find out why people don't want tr eat in the dining
halls and deal with that directly, instead of establishing rules that force people to eat in the halls," said James Sladeck, financial affairs chair for Student Senate.
The final question in the survey asked students about the overall performance of (See Dining, page 6)
Chavez speaks on human rights
Activist urges students to continue union’s fight
By Brian McDonough
Staff Writer
Prominent labor activist Cesar Chavez stressed the need to fight for human rights in a noontime address Monday to a packed audience at Hancock Auditorium.
The speech, sponsored by the Latino Student Assembly, was in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution.
"We believe we have rights in this country,"
Cesar Chavez
R. Antonio Garcia / Dally Trojan
said Chavez, the 63-year-old president of the United Farm Workers. "The day we let the government take those rights, we're through."
Chavez has been a key organizer of California's agriculture laborers since the early 1960s. He led strikes, boycotts and fasts to improve working conditions for farm laborers and has fought against the proliferation of pesticides by the agricultural industry.
Chavez, who spoke to the audience for 30 minutes, is currently leading a boycott of state grape growers because of their pesticide usage.
Pesticides used by the agricultural industry have been linked to cancer and birth defects among farm laborers and in communities surrounding farmlands, he said.
"We've got to do something to protect (those) who work and sacrifice to produce the food we eat every day," he said.
Chavez told a story about a crew spraying a toxic pesticide while wearing protective suits and masks. One of the men died and two others became seriously ill from the spraying.
The autopsy indicated the cause of death had been pesticide poisoning, but rather than blaming inadequate chemical limits, the cause of death was listed officially as suicide, Chavez said.
"That was the most vicious damn thing I've ever seen in my life," he said.
Chavez and his supporters have been boycotting Vons Supermarkets, a major buyer of table grapes, and passing out leaflets in front of the store despite recent court injunctions against his group's actions.
Chavez said the injunctions are unfair, and that he and his supporters did not fear arrest.
"We're damn well going to (pass out leaflets in front of Vons)," he said. "We're going to do it tomorrow."
In fact, Chavez criticized the judicial system for rendering decisions to benefit industry rather than the people.
(See Chavez, page 2)
English professor given faculty award by Mortar Board
By Chris Fukunaga
Staff Writer
Vincent Cheng, a university English professor, said he was surprised Monday when members of the Mortar Board senior society interrupted his class and "tapped" him as their second faculty-of-the-month for this school year.
Cheng, who had been lecturing to his class on the poet William Butler Yeats, said he was flattered to receive the award.
"I am very honored, and I don't want to say too much or I'll probably start reciting Yeats' poems," he joked. "But thank you all."
The Torch and Tassel chapter of the Mortar Board taps professors at the university in recognition of outstanding scholarship and teaching.
Cheng attended Harvard College, Boston College and Stanford University, where he received his doctorate. He joined the USC faculty in 1979, and is an acknowledged James Joyce scholar.
Cheng's book Shakespeare and Joyce: A Study oj Finnegan’s Wake received a Choice Out-
standing Academic Book Award.
Karen Chow, chairwoman of Mortar Board's Faculty of the Month Committee, said Cheng is well known in academic circles and is liked by his students.
"His commitment to students is apparent in his numerous office hours and his ready willingness to sit down individually with students," Chow said. "He has even hosted students for dinner at his own home."
After Chow concluded her remarks, she and 13 other Mortar Board members presented Cheng with a scroll and a letter of congratulations.
Besides Joyce, Cheng's other teaching interests include Modem British and American literature, Shakespeare, creative writing and Prosody.
Cheng is fluent in French, Chinese, Spanish, Latin and Portugese as well as English.
Chow nominated Cheng for the award.
"He is very special to me," she said. "He was my first En-(See Tapping, page 14)